Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...evidence demonstrates such fraudulent conduct as to show his unfitness. It also discloses enough to make it a justifiable conclusion that his appointment comes from and springs from his election, and that it never would have been made except for that election, an election which, the evidence discloses, was wickedly and fraudulently accomplished. It is that which taints and challenges these credentials here presented. . . . If the Senate does not guard its own portals and protect its own integrity, then there is no power outside the Senate to protect that integrity...
...Great Lakes (Ill.) Naval Training Station, onetime Governor of Samoa, who was last week appointed by President Coolidge to be "king" of the Virgin Islands. His official title is Governor, but he is the sole military, civil and judicial head of the islands and is responsible to no one except the President. Few would be the wiser if he had his subjects wash his feet, rub his brow, lull him to sleep. "King" Waldo I will soon gaze upon his domain-the islands of St. Thomas, St. Croix and St. John, and some 50 adjacent islets controlling the Virgin Passage...
...heed to his butler's complaints. Sometimes, if no band came, he played to himself on the flageolet, a sad and wandering air. Then to bed. He had bought real estate with his money-Manhattan real estate was good, and at one time he owned more than anyone except John Jacob Astor-but he never raised a rent or put a tenant out for not paying the rent. When the War came, the government took all his property under the Alien Property Custodian's Act. George Ehret got it back again. When Prohibition came he could not quite...
...Shocked, because the sumos wear no garments except a loin cloth and a belt by grasping which they strive to throw each other...
...attempted. Then followed a series of conditioning races. Three such races were rowed, the start being at Watertown and the finish opposite the Newell Boathouse. On the Friday before the Brown game, the last of these races was rowed with six crews competing. This completed the fall activities except for occasional work on the river and tank. This work was merely optional. There has been no rowing for University men since Christmas...